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From left, Pacific Islands Forum secretary-general Henry Puna, Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Kitlang Kabua, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and Japanese PM Fumio Kishida in Tokyo.

Japan to delay Pacific nuclear wastewater discharge


13-Feb-2023

The Pacific Islands Forum has welcomed Japan’s decision to delay the release of more than one mil

Kongulai water source. Photo by MAVIS PODOKOLO.

Landowners plan to shut down Honiara’s largest reservoir if government fails to review lease agreement


13-Feb-2023

Landowners of Honiara’s largest water supply reservoir have threatened to close down the source o

Washington’s seasonal king tides, shown here at Washaway Beach in November 2022, are becoming more destructive as sea levels rise. Local leaders have spread an experimental cobble berm along the shore to help stem erosion

Washington’s ‘Washaway Beach’ Experiment Is Reshaping Ideas About Coastal Erosion


13-Feb-2023

DAVID COTTRELL STOOD ON WHAT used to be a 14-foot-high cliff at the crumbled end of Blue Pacific

IAEA Director and Coordinator of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, Gustavo Caruso

IAEA says it does not have control over Japan’s decision to release treated nuclear water but to look at safety standards


10-Feb-2023

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it does not have any control over Japan’s plan

Deep sea manganese nodules found in the Cook Islands Photo: EEZ. SEABED MINERALS AUTHORITY/20092117

Cook Islands Seabed Minerals (SBM) Authority holds public meetings to discuss seabed minerals issues


10-Feb-2023

Cook Islands Seabed Minerals (SBM) Authority have confirmed that Prime Minister Mark Brown recent

WAF Acting Manager Wastewater Josaia Koroilavesau

Wastewater master plan is a proactive step: Water Authority of Fiji


8-Feb-2023

The public consultation on the formulation of a wastewater treatment master plan is a proactive s

Superbugs

UNEP releases report on Strengthening environmental action in response to antimicrobial resistance


7-Feb-2023

The UNEP report ‘Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening environmental action in the One Health resp

Deep sea sponges and other creatures live on and among valuable manganese nodules like this one that could be mined from the seafloor.

Subsea Mining Plans Pit Renewable Energy Demand Against Ocean Life


7-Feb-2023

As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient am

Tian Lui, Fiji, Mangroves

‘Removal of mangroves causes flooding’


7-Feb-2023

Former high schoolteacher Lepani Kolinisau claims the removal of mangroves in Nasese in Fiji, for